A good hotel for families.

Written: 13 january 2011
Travel time: 27 december 2010 — 6 january 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 8.0
Check-in was at 4 pm, no money and no problems - they asked for it on the 3rd floor and got it in the building farthest from the reception - so quieter and closer to the beach.
The rooms are very spacious - the furniture is not new, but not annoying. There is a kettle in the room = tea accessories, a safe, a refrigerator and a TV with strange channels, no Russian.
The food is excellent, for lovers, when the tables are littered with everything not here - here it is more modest but of high quality and tasty. They gave everything and fish every day and beef and chicken. From fruits: guava, pomegranate, bananas, dates, some local melon, oranges - it's winter after all. The waiters deserve special thanks. Good-natured, sociable, clean everything at the pace of the waltz. The child is delighted with communication with them. A big thank you to the waiters Eddie Murphy and Mohammed with a very short haircut. In the bars on the all-inclusive system, no queues.

Pools. The main one is without heating and in winter there is nothing to do in it - it's cold. The middle one is heated - it is comfortable there - although there are a lot of people, there were always places. You will not find a children's warm pool, only the average is 1.6 deep.
The beach is coarse sand and only in a small area there is something like corals or some kind of stone growths - slabs. Quite windy - but there are fences from the wind.
The sea is very shallow until the end of the pontoon knee-deep. You won't be able to swim. For little kids, that's it. The sand, although large, is excellent for children who like to build from sand. Very salty. Pure - warm they say it was 25-24 gr.
Animation - there was some kind of team, but for some reason no one really understood what they were doing.
In general, roofing felts are winter roofing felts; there are few of them in such a territory. Discos indoors.
For comparison, in Turkey, in a hotel with an area of ​ ​.34, 000 sq. m. there was a team of 10 people, and here on the square 2.5 times as large there were only four - so they were not visible at all.
Shops are a convenient thing, a subway store - you can buy groceries and everyday things inexpensively. The shops are full of everything, but the prices are aching two or three times more than we are used to - and not everyone is ready to bargain - in general, I didn’t find anything special in the street shops for myself - solid pyramids - cats and sarcophagi.
Weather late December - early January. It was hot when we arrived, then it got cooler - there was a heavy downpour, which is very rare for Egypt. It gets quite windy on the beach. In general, no one is frozen, burned or fried - COMFORT. There are no thermometers either in the hotel or on the street - according to the locals, it was from 25 to 30 degrees in the shade.
The staff is polite, no one bothered with their services such as Spa and other things, once asked and left behind. Everyone is smiling, good-natured - very pleasant. I did not notice any prejudiced attitude towards the Russians - everyone is welcome. Most of the tourists are Italians and some English. There are plenty of Russians too.

Excursions - who does not plan to visit Egypt often, I advise you to visit Cairo, the city of contrasts and pyramids. The smallest offer was at the Orbit Tour agency - $ 485 for two adults + a child of 7 years old - this is by plane. Impressed. The Russian guide was great. The delay with the return flight for 3 hours let us down.
We were also on a quad bike safari in the desert for $60 for three - we bought it on the beach from an agency at the hotel - but you could also take the same thing on the street for $45-50 for three. Pretty interesting. But get ready that there will be a whole crowd of you there - they take buses and everything passes pretty quickly. Ride…. - next!
Bathyscaphe - a boat with a partial dive and a glass view - 1 hour of the underwater world - $ 100 for three. Average impressions - apparently expected to see turtles and some other large fish.
Detailed prices for excursions will be scanned from flyers and posted a little later.
Tour operator Pegas - Barnaul - this is perhaps the main disappointment of the trip.
They took us ahead with a 3-hour landing in Omsk - for which we were, of course, mentally prepared. And back there were tickets for a direct flight home - but we were sent without explanation and no apologies through Moscow - we stuck there for 11 hours, and then on a regular flight to Barnaul - we got exactly a day almost went crazy.
The overall impression of the trip is a solid four. Inconveniences will be forgotten over time, and good memories of the Arab country will remain in the soul forever. Have a nice holiday everyone. You should definitely visit the country of pyramids, deserts and red mountains at least once in your life!
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